The Marriage Cure [NOOK Book]

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In The Marriage Cure, half Cherokee, half Irish Johnny Devaney leaves Fort Gibson in the Indian Nations. The place is nothing more than a pest hole of disease and he hates that he has descended into living life as a filthy drunkard. He yearns for the woodlands and peaceful life he knew back in Tennessee and so he follows the rivers away from the fort into the Ozark country he recalls from the march through on the Trail of Tears.

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In The Marriage Cure, half Cherokee, half Irish Johnny Devaney leaves Fort Gibson in the Indian Nations. The place is nothing more than a pest hole of disease and he hates that he has descended into living life as a filthy drunkard. He yearns for the woodlands and peaceful life he knew back in Tennessee and so he follows the rivers away from the fort into the Ozark country he recalls from the march through on the Trail of Tears.

Widowed pioneer settler Sabetha Trahern struggles to eke out her existence from the rough and rocky Ozark hills. One day as she struggles to bring her single cow home, she meets a stranger who drives the cow back to her crude barn but then collapses, ill.

She nurses Johnny Devaney, growing attached to him as he fights for his life against the deadly typhus fever he brought with him from Fort Gibson.

The title, The Marriage Cure, is taken from an old Irish proverb that says the only cure for love is marriage.

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Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy was born in the old frontier city of St. Joseph, Missouri, a descendant of both some of the earliest settlers and immigrant stock. She began scribbling her stories early and grew up into a writer. She holds degrees from both Crowder College and Missouri Southern State University, spent a number of years working in radio broadcasting and currently has eight other novels and novellas available to the public.

She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Missouri Writers Guild, and the Ozark Writers League. Her short fiction has appeared in many places, both print and online, as well as in nine anthologies.
She now makes her home in a small town in the Ozark Mountains with her husband and three children.

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